Archive for March 25th 2014

Two men have been taken to hospital following a fire in a garage next to a row of bungalows.
Fire crews were called to the blaze at Henllan, near Denbigh, at 17:23 GMT on Monday.
A man in his 40s suffered burns to his hand while another man, in his 6...

Fire chiefs in Tyne and Wear have voted to close three stations and axe 131 jobs.
The fire authority want to make the cuts over the next four years to trim £8.8m from its budget.
But it said under-threat Sunderland, Wallsend and Gosforth stations wo...

About 30 firefighter jobs are to go in Warwickshire as the fire service tries to save £2.4m over the next four years.
Five control room staff will also be made redundant, the service said. It said jobs would be lost by not replacing staff that retir...

Authorities say they have 108 reports of people missing or unaccounted for after Saturday's huge landslide in the north-western US state of Washington.
Eight bodies have been recovered so far after the 177ft (54m) wall of mud swept near the town of O...

A fire authority has been criticised after reports its chief officer claimed £3,000 for private surgery.
Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue's Mark Yates put the payment towards a £5,090 back operation, according to Freedom of Information data ...

Cotswold Airport's owner has been found guilty of health and safety breaches, after the airport's fire chief died.
Steve Mills, 45, was killed when a gas cylinder hit him on the head when it suddenly discharged, in 2011.
He had been in his role at th...

A Chicago metro train has derailed at O'Hare International Airport, injuring 32 people, officials say.
Early on Monday the train came off the tracks, crossed a platform and travelled part way up an escalator at one of the busiest airports in the US.
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A 16-year-old girl is being questioned by police investigating suspected arson at a girls' school in West Sussex.
The fire badly damaged the top floor of Millais School in Depot Road, Horsham, on Thursday.
The girl was arrested on Sunday, interviewed...

A poultry farmer who lost nearly 7,000 chickens in a shed fire, has said it will take a year for his business to recover.
The free range laying hens were killed when a fire destroyed the Rosamondford Farm shed at Perkins Village, near Exeter, Devon, ...

Three people were treated for breathing in smoke and four homes evacuated after a shed caught fire in a Cambridgeshire village.
Five crews tackled the blaze at Beechwood Avenue, Bottisham, which began at just before 09:00 GMT.
An eyewitness reported ...